Risky Business
Developers discuss the best business practices for indies
Make a good game, and market it well
Slidey Land
Land Sliders, the first game from ex-Halfbrick start-up Prettygreat, to launch on 24 September
Crossy Road inspiration evident
Small Data
When it comes to analytics, indies should "screw the forest and look at the trees"
Joel Johnson on asking the right questions
Grow Your Own
How to save money by growing a userbase organically
Who needs to advertise?
Cloudy Day
IBM on the benefits of cloud infrastucture in games
Get your head in the clouds
High Speed
Akamai Technologies at PG Connects Bangalore
It's a series of tubes
End Of An Era
Konami restructures, focusing ongoing development on mobile games
All but PES to be given the boot
Lucid Lessons
Lucid Labs on what it learned developing Roto
Important lessons for first-time devs
Pay Up
Not every game has to be free-to-play
People still like premium
Market Forces
Why Chinese mobile games are growing fast in Korea
Nasmedia explains the trend
Virality
Does your game encourage virality, asks Oscar Clark
If you build it, they will tweet
Be Free
Don't be a prisoner of indie games, says Christophe Comparin
I am not a number
Targetting
Is India's imagination worth capturing?
India's developers talk it over
Notice Me
Simple marketing tricks for indie devs
Getting noticed and getting downloaded
Old Dog, New Tricks
Tatsum Kimishima succeeds Iwata as new Nintendo president
Nintendo has appointed a new president.
Listen And Learn
Ste Curran and Henry LaBounta revealed as keynote speakers for NASSCOM Game Developer Conference
Former Edge magazine editor and Zynga's Chief Visual Officer take the stage
Opportunities
Starting with China, how Kabam is looking to boost Asian revenues beyond 10%
Chris Petrovic on Marvel Contest of Champions' debut
Name Game
Indian devs on the potential and risks of developing for branded IPs
What's in a name?
Pay For It
AppLift India on making the most of your paid advertising
More bang for your buck
Making Connections
PGC Helsinki ticket opens door to Asia for UK studio Rumpus Entertainment
The Adventures of Bertram Fiddle found success in Asia after PGC Helsinki
A Wonder
Dominations does 1 million downloads in Japan, Korea and Taiwan
Building a civilisation
Socio-media
Very Big Indie Pitch runner-up Socioball's designer on lessons learned during development
How to get the ball rolling
Remixed
Raven becomes Evilbane as Netmarble renames its top grossing Korean RPG for international release
Flown away
Primed For Action
Why pre-registration campaigns are key to Japanese UA
Get them pre-launch
Important Lessons
Leading Indian mobile game developers discuss how they found success
Education, education, education
Bulking Up
West-to-China publisher MyGamez announces 9 million MAUs and new funding round
Growing portfolio
Indie-pendence Day
What makes a game an "indie game"?
Got the feeling
Global Ambition
Hero Entertainment on bringing its FPS eSports hit Crisis Action to the west
Crisis Action has 10 million DAUs in greater China, looking west for more
Indie Introspection
What does indie mean in India any way?
What they think about how they think
Finer Details
Mech Mocha on why Indian indies have to get smart about the "other stuff" in F2P games
It's not just about the game
Call To Action
Can you use post-call ads to boost revenue and retention?
Power of voice
Lift Off
PlayCanvas and GMO Cloud partner to crack Japan
PlayCanvas launches in Japan
Keep In Touch
Make sure your player segmentation isn't too granular, says Fiksu
"They just need a little nudge."
Category Conscious
How to advertise to the Indian market
Locally grown knowledge
Moving Pictures
AdColony's Thorbjörn Warin on best practices for video ads
Short and to the point
Big Spenders
Amazon's Mike Hines on how the top 50 games are driven by superfans
Keep your fans close
Reward Drive
POKKT on how to make the most of reward-based advertising
How to win friends
On The Up
NetEase posts 63% revenue surge in Q2 to $780 million
Fantasy Westward Journey and Blizzard licences lead
Can't Beat The Original
Tencent pulls its version of hit game Tower of Saviors as players reject harder monetisation
Mad Head's original version remains popular
Ad-vantage
How best to monetise freemium gamers, according to Google
IAPs are not the only way
Monster Mash
Japanese free-to-play RPG Monster Strike earns $4.2 million a day
Something has risen in the east.
App-y Days
Google, Amazon and Microsoft talk app store best practices
Get noticed and make money
Myriad Devices
How Testbird worked with DeNA to prime One Piece for Chinese success
Fixing critical bug
Om Nom Knowledge
How Zeptolab distilled 150 ideas into 50 prototypes, 5 soft launches, and one King of Thieves
There's no pleasing some people
Bird Brand
Rovio's Mighty Eagle Peter Vesterbacka on why brands are best
As since proved by Angry Birds 2
Core Move
iDreamSky invests $10 million into US core dev Rumble Entertainment
Big bet
Expanding The Nest
Rovio spreads its wings with new country director for India
Anurag Sachdeva is taking Angry Birds east.
Istanbul-built, China-bound
iDreamSky snaps up Chinese publishing rights for US hit Toy Blast
Will its healthy US grossing translate Eastward?
Play Nice
#PGCHelsinki speaker Shin Kanaoya on why western games need to be more shinsetsu to Japanese gamers
What to expect at PG Connects Helsinki 2015
Levelling Up
Off the back of aggressive UA spending for Summoners War, Com2uS' sales rise 16% to $97 million
RPGs are the way ahead